Sara Jane Lippincott
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Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904) was an American author, better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. Sara Jane Clarke was born at Pompey, N. Y.. Her family moved to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where her father was a physician, and she there attended the Greenwood Institute, a ladies' academy, from which she may have taken her pseudonym. In 1853, she married Leander K. Lippincott, and they had a daughter, but he left the country in 1876 after indictment for land fraud. Latterly she lived with her daughter in New Rochelle, New York, where she died.
Her earliest writing was poetry and children's stories, and with her husband she started Little Pilgrim (1854), the first American children's magazine. She was soon producing magazine articles and essays, and became one of the earliest regular female newspaper correspondents. In 1852 she went to Europe on assignment for the New York Times. She was an active support of women's rights and of the anti-slavery movement, and during the Civil War wrote articles from Washington DC in aid of the Northern cause.
[edit] Works
- Greenwood Leaves (1850)
- History of my Pets (1851)
- Poems (1851)
- Recollections of my Childhood, and other stories (1852)
- Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe (1854)
- Merrie England (1855)
- Forest Tragedy, and other tales (1856)
- Stories and Legends of Travel and History (1857)
- Stories from Famous Ballads (1860)
- Bonnie Scotland (1861)
- Records of Five Years (1867)
- Stories and Sights of France and Italy (1867)
- Stories of Many Lands (1867)
- Summer Etchings in Colorado (1873)
- New Life in New Lands (1873)
- Heads and Tails: studies and stories of pets (1875)
- Emma Abbott, prima donna (1878)
- Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood (1883)
- Stories for Home-folks, young and old (1884)
- Stories and Sketches (1892)
(with Rossiter W. Raymond)
- Treasures from Fairyland (1879)
[edit] References
- chapter in "Milo Adams Townsend and Social Movements of the Nineteenth Century" (1994) by Charles W. Townsend III and Peggy Jean Townsend [1]
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